Beirut, Lebanon – The Sudan Army is pushing the Rapid Military Support (RSF) to retreat from Khartoum, which raised the hope between many in the capital to renew stability.

However, local relief workers said they are afraid that they would be targeted in a wave of revenge.

“Every time the army restores a region, they start targeting civilians and human volunteers. This is why we are all very afraid. *Ahmed, a local relief volunteer in Sharq El-Nile, is an area in Khartoum that the army threatens to restore.

A war on local relief workers

Local volunteers such as AHMED are members of ERRS, and the popular networks that have led the humanitarian response since the outbreak of Sudan in the war in April 2023.

Mistakes provide multiple services, such as soup kitchens support, safe spaces for women and children, and basic health care for patients and wounded.

Most of them depend on donations from Sudanese diaspora and financing from international NGOs and United Nations agencies.

Despite their vital humanitarian role, the wrong workers face arrests, kidnapping and killing outside the judiciary from both sides in the conflict.

a lot It was targeted by their pro -democracy stancesWhich threatened the joint base of RSF and the army at the time after a popular uprising that dropped its former president, Omar Al -Bashir, in April 2019.

Four years later, RSF and the army turned their rifles against each other after they cooperated to overthrow a civil administration and sabotage the popular aspirations of democracy. The war between the two sides killed tens of thousands of people and generated the largest humanitarian crisis in the world through most measures.

Moreover, at least 112 members of the war were killed since the beginning of the war, an ERR spokesman. Actual losses can be higher amid fears that reporting attacks can bring violent revenge.

As the army advances in Khartoum, many members who make mistakes in their lives fear and claim protection.

“We thought about how we got a kind of protection [for ERR members]”We need the international community to pay and call for us,” said Mukhtar Atve, the spokesperson with Volunteers.

According to volunteers, analysts, and international relief workers, the army often treats anyone who does humanitarian activities in RSF areas as a traitor.

“Many volunteers refuse to evacuate [from Khartoum] Because there is an urgent need for the United Nations [aid] Hagog Coca, a spokeswoman for the Coordination Committee in Khartoum, said that the caravans that must come in the next few days “and the errors need to distribute aid to the hungry civilians.

“Many of these volunteers have made peace with the fact that they would be killed [by the army] Some have already sent messages [to us and their friends] He said goodbye. “

Monitoring and killing

Many volunteers on the island have told that they knew his fellow relief and civilians who were recently killed by the army and agreed with the militias in Khartoum in the north.

They said that their teams are mired in the huge humanitarian crisis and could not accurately monitor the attacks.

Al -Jazeera sent written questions to the army spokesman Nabil Abdullah, and asked him to respond to the accusations that the alignment army and militias target local activists and civilians during the restoration of Khartoum.

It was not mentioned before the publication.

However, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights He said in a statement He realizes at least 18 people who were killed in seven incidents by army fighters in Khartoum north on January 25.

The island is unable to confirm whether any of the dead are wrong members.

The United Nations Human Rights Office is also trying to verify.

“The army has its own spies watching civilians who interact with RSF,” a member of the Khartoum error, who asked not to be identified for fear of revenge, speculated.

Coca gave another reason for his belief that the army uses spies to monitor relief workers.

He said that one of his members errors was arrested a month ago after he crossed from the RSF area in Khartoum to a nearby town controlled by the army.

The member was tortured – Coca did not reveal how this – and was accused of cooperation with RSF because of working in a medical center that provided care for the wounded and patients.

According to Kuka, the Army told ERR that he was watching the medical center for a long time and considered all collaborators in RSF employees.

A few dozen people work in the center.

“The army knows people [who volunteer at the centre] Coca told Al -Jazeera: “By name, … and they said they would get them.”

Devices and accusations

Since the army launched its attack on taking the capital in late September, unknown social media users stained local relief workers and other activists as RSF collaborators on closed Facebook and WhatsApp private conversations, mistakes said.

“There is always misleading information that is spreading whenever the army regains a new area,” Atf said.

SANAD Authentication Agency looked at footage of six posts on Facebook that threatened or stained people in Halia, alive in the Northmith Khrrum.

SANAD said the publications were downloaded by unknown users and in special groups.

ATIF added that the publications began to circulate exactly, and the army regained Halia in early October.

At that time, the non -determined expert on Sudan, Radwan Nicker, said in a statement that he was concerned about reports that the militia alignment with the army was briefly briefly. Executing at least 70 young men In Halia, on suspicion of they were collaborating in RSF.

“these [smears on social media] It started in September before the army executed many civilians in Halia, “Atf said,” Atf, said,

Err members said the alleged collaborators are spreading again as the army unifies control over Khartoum North.

One of the list on WhatsApp and Al -Jazeera’s opinion accuses 125 people – activists, politicians, doctor and lawyers – of conspiracy against the army and the state.

Coca said that a member of errors is also listed on the list and that many of his peers received death threats on Facebook.

Escape

The brief killings carried out by the army’s militias in Halia are to force many volunteers to search for a way to escape from their neighborhoods in Khartoum to save themselves and their families.

Many said they were equally afraid after the militias adjacent to the army implement Executions outside the judiciary for non -armed men In Civil Clothes in Wadi Madani, the capital of Jesira State, which RSF surrendered control a month ago.

The army targeted the non -armed men in Madiani via ethnic and tribal lines, accusing them of sympathy for RSF.

While the army promised to investigate the accidents, local relief workers in Khartoum are convinced that they will suffer from a similar fate if they continue.

“We knew that we would be the following after the terror that took place in the Madani Valley,” said Ahmed from Sharq El-Nile.

On Saturday, Ahmed assembled his family’s savings to evacuate his elderly mother towards Darfur, a western, sprawling area dominated by RSF.

He hopes to collect enough money to collect his younger one and his little sister with their mother in the coming days.

From Darfur, they plan to cross the border to Chad, a country that has already absorbed more than 700,000 Sudanese refugees. The vast majority of brutal actions and violations escaped.

Ahmed may join them, but he runs out of time to escape. It depends on ERR members abroad to deliver money, so that he can pay the price of transportation to leave the city.

“everyone [working in humanitarian work] About here is really afraid. “Really afraid,” Ahmed said.

“everyone [from the ERRs] It is just an arrangement to flee now. If they cannot escape, they are looking for a way to get enough money and escape before the army arrives. “

*The names have been changed to protect the sources from possible revenge.